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11-11-2012, 05:05 PM
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Location: Glendale Heights, IL
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Sears Tower
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11-11-2012, 05:17 PM
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Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Born2bwire
I've never heard it called anything but the Amoco building myself.
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This. And as said many times before, it will always be the Sears Tower.
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11-12-2012, 02:14 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Columbus, OH
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Originally Posted by Vic Vega
What about the Standard Oil/Amoco building? People seem to be OK calling it the Aon Center.
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Guessing it largely has to do with it's status. I've only been to airports in Chicago and have never heard of this building. Only know of the Hancock Building and Sears Tower. You can't start renaming iconic buildings and expect people from elsewhere to know what they are called.
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11-12-2012, 02:22 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Sears Tower.
Re-naming iconic sites is always a stupid idea.
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11-12-2012, 05:18 AM
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I didn't know it was renamed from the Sears Tower and I live one state over. Don't think the new name is catching on, lol.
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11-12-2012, 08:36 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Steeler Nation
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If John Maclain wants a tower named after him in chicago, who are you to argue?
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11-12-2012, 10:17 AM
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Location: Illinois
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GregGreen
Guessing it largely has to do with it's status. I've only been to airports in Chicago and have never heard of this building. Only know of the Hancock Building and Sears Tower. You can't start renaming iconic buildings and expect people from elsewhere to know what they are called.
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It's not as architecturally interesting as some of the other sites in Chicago I guess. But I don't think anything like Willis or whatever the hell they're trying to call the Amoco building will catch on for now. Chicago has some great architecture, I always love showing outlanders around the place. The Rookery, Monadnock Building, Tribune Tower, Wrigley Building, Carbide and Carbon, Sears Tower, Prudential Building, Amoco Building, etc. These are all landmarks that have been around for many decades. Just putting a new sign on it ain't going to change what I've been saying for thirty years. Course the Amoco is a new name for the building too. Give it another thirty years and maybe enough people will know it as the Aon.
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11-12-2012, 05:10 PM
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Chicagoan here. Sears Tower, always. Standard Oil building over Aon Center (though, I don't cringe when I hear "Aon Center"). Also, Marshall Fields > Macy's, but thats another story  .
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11-12-2012, 05:37 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IronWing
You're not from Texas are you? I might have to take the cookie back.
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he sounds like one of those disgruntled Illinoians that hates where he lives because it isn't Chicago.
Fact is, there is no relevance to the state outside of Chicago, and this is why the the rest of the state gets shit on (necessarily) for the needs of Chicago.
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11-12-2012, 06:42 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jagec
I can't believe that so many companies are willing to pay good money for naming rights to buildings that have already been around for ages, given that the public tends to keep referring to them by the old name and gets resentful at the company in question.
Monster Park, anyone?
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It was always Candlestick, and now is again.
I even call the place the Giants play PacBell Park - I am that old-school 
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11-13-2012, 02:43 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Wauconda, IL
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Willis is the "real life" name of John McClane and Corbin Dallas. That's all it means to me.
The Sears tower is the Sears tower.
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11-13-2012, 03:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 386
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkaign
Sears Tower.
Re-naming iconic sites is always a stupid idea.
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As is saying that Pluto is not a planet.
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